Sentence examples for oxygenator from inspiring English sources

The oxygenator removes carbon dioxide and adds oxygen to the blood that is pumped into the arterial system.

His membrane oxygenator, which provided a way to add oxygen to blood as it passed through a machine, is still used in heart-lung machines during open-heart surgery.

Blood is taken from a central artery in the neck, pumped through an "oxygenator" – where it is warmed, the carbon dioxide removed and oxygen added – and returned to the patient via a central vein.

That you'd have one tube permanently in your chest, and that you had to wear the oxygenator outside your body and you needed a tank of oxygen and to push around other things on wheels.

Blood then flows into an oxygenator, the lung component of the machine, where it is exposed to an oxygen-containing gas mixture or oxygen alone.

During this operation for the surgical closure of an atrial septal defect, cardiopulmonary bypass was achieved by a machine equipped with an oxygenator developed by Gibbon and a roller pump developed in 1932 by American surgeon Michael E. DeBakey.

Sorin claims worldwide leadership in cardiac-surgery equipment such as heart-lung machines and oxygenators that provide oxygen to the blood in open-heart operations, and co-leadership worldwide in making mechanical heart-valves.

Last year they arranged to have a MAYO-Gibbon pump-oxygenator built in this country for the use of the Surgical Clinic of the Medical Academy in the Polish city of Wroclaw (once known as Breslau).

The pump-oxygenator was perfected in 1953 by Dr. John Gibbon & it reproduces the natural pumping action of the heart while a patient is undergoing surgery.

Heart-lung machines have totally disposable tubing and plastic bubble oxygenators.

Since then, heart-lung machines have been greatly improved with smaller and more-efficient oxygenators, allowing them to be used not only in adults but also in children and even newborn infants.